YES: How Weak Foreign Policy Abroad Leads To Intrusive Government At Home. “The reason we’re even having this conversation about domestic surveillance, Muslim databases, any of it, is because we failed to contain the infection over there and now it’s spread to here.”

Related: Washington Post: “For much of the past seven years, President Obama has labored to move the United States off a war footing abroad and keep the threat of terrorism in perspective at home. The Paris attacks and their after­math are testing the limits of that approach and the patience of a country that is questioning whether the president truly understands the terror threat.”